Show No. 8 is a Friday News Edition  featuring an interview with Ray Murphy of co-GM and analyst at BaseballHQ.com, discussing injury news with Rhys Hoskins, Raisel Iglesias, Mitch Haniger and others (2:30) ... managing the Grayson Rodriguez conundrum and other AL East notes (11:10) ... the STL leadoff situation and NL Central notes (18:00)... spring training SP wrapups, including a deep opportunity in CLE (23:10) ... the Big Hurt column updates (34:50) and the Baseball HQ Straight Draft Guide, now in its 19th year! (50:40) ...Runs 1:13:15

Show No. 7 of 2023 is a Tuesday Tout Edition, featuring an expert interview with Tanner Bell, of SmartFantasyBaseball.com and the fantasy guidebook 'The Process,' discussing analyzing Main Event success, the way to understand and use projections, how many fantasy stats get 'captured' in drafts, starting pitchers, saves, rules change effects ... and his Boons and Banes ... Runs 1:35:50

Show Rundown

> Feature expert interview 1 (1:25): Tanner Bell

> Feature expert interview 2 (54:10): Tanner Bell

Show No. 6 is a Friday Full Edition, dropping Thursday because of Tout Wars weekend, featuring an interview with Peter Kreutzer of Rotoman's Guide at Substack, discussing his picks and pans for 2023 among first, second and third basemen (1:25), what's happening with Tout Wars, and his Boons and Banes (1:37:45) ... Also hitter and pitcher news with Kris Olson (44:05) ... Runs 2:27:15

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Show No. 5 of 2023 is a Tuesday Tout Edition, featuring an expert interview with Gene McCaffrey, of a fantasy baseball columnist at The Athletic, discussing his series at The Athletic analyzing the fantasy outlooks for the hitters in our drafts,and his Boons and Banes (new version!) ... Runs 1:23:20

Show Rundown

> Feature expert interview 1 (1:05): Gene McCaffrey

> Feature expert interview 2 (49:50): Gene McCaffrey

Show No. 4 is a Friday News Edition, featuring hitter and pitcher news with Ray Murphy …

Show Rundown

> Hitters (1:10:25): Ray Murphy looks at Bryce Harper, Jordan Walker, Seiya Suzuki and more ...

> Pitchers (51:55): Ray Murphy looks at Carlos Rodon, Jose Quintana, James Paxton and more...

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Show No. 3 of 2023 is our first Tuesday Tout Edition of 2023, featuring an expert interview with Todd Zola, of Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire, SiriusXM and podcasts everywhere, discussing what to expect in the new SB environment, what he's seeing out there in draft-land, why we both like best-ball leagues, and more ... Runs 1:20:30

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Show Number 3 of the 2023 season, and the first show of this calendar year, features a full-scale interview with Ray Murphy, the co-GM and columnist at the BHQ site ... Ray and host Patrick Davitt discuss spring training stories Ray’s watching, early trends in this season’s drafts, managing player tiers, using ADPs effectively, and what’s new with Baseball HQ and First Pitch Florida.Runs 1:24:20

Show No. 1 of the 2023 fantasy season is a Tuesday Special Edition, with Ray Murphy of BaseballHQ.com joining host Patrick Davitt to discuss the fantasy effects of free agents who have changed teams so far this Hot Stove season. The fun begins with starting pitchers (1:40) including Jacob deGrom, Justin Verlander, Zach Eflin and Jose Quintana... Then we move to hitters (50:30): Including Trea Turner, Xander Bogaerts, Jose Abreu and Willson Contreras ... And finally relievers (1:32:10): Including Kenley Jansen, Chris Martin, and potential closers Carlos Estevez in LAA and Miguel Castro in ARI... Runs 1:46:30

This special edition was recorded on Saturday, Nov. 5 at the First Pitch Arizona fantasy baseball conference in Phoenix, in front of a (mostly) live audience. Guests Todd Zola, Ray Murphy and Ron Shandler are three of the best-known and most successful projections builders in the business, and we talked about how the coming MLB rules changes are going to affect their approaches to building and maintaining their projections systems.Runs 1:25:50